This movie was really amazing to watch, it makes me think of real life situations, and how it really is like growing up. With tragedy and some predictable, yet unexpected twists.. I loved it! The acting was just great from young people.. I really recommend watching this movie. It touched me, and I loved watching it. It's like me & my friends!

It's not uninteresting, but not very good either. When an ending is this predictable, it fails to deliver it's emotional payload. However I will give the ending credit for not following typical Hollywood patterns.

This movie was awesome hirsch and culkin are reallllyyyyy hott!!!!

Hi!.. I´m from Argentina, and i ve to say that i love this movie... It s a great film to make us see differentt situations or emotions where the love or the friendship are the most umbreakebles things... I really laugh, cry and stay very quite to cacht any scene... I believe this´s a great movie not just for the great script or the ambientation; the people who made that possible really did a good job... Emile Hirsch is one of the most realist actors that i ve seen...he is just great!!! … Expand

I love this movie to death. I recommend it to anyone anywhere. The book rocks harder than the movie so you may want to check it out, too. It's a shame that Chris Fuhrman died of cancer in 1991, only completing The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, but that just makes it even more precious.

I loved this movie, i thought it was great. i would've given it a 10 but it was a bit of a shocker when ...(spoilers omitted)... i guess having a dramatic turn is good in a movie but it did get a bit boring and somewhat lost my attention, maybe i just have a short attention span, oh well. i really liked it because emilie hirsch and kieran culkin are very hott and good actors. that9;s my review on the movie, it's not very specific, but whatever. oh yeah, it would've been a lot better if joey wasn't in the movie, he was kind of wierd.. no offense to you joey lovers out there.. since i know he has so many.… Expand

Love the movie! I especially like the way the comic bits are used to portray escapism and the fantasy world of the boys. Fits beautifully with the storyline. If not for the tragic ending, though, the plot would have been predictable. Good acting, great soundtrack!

This movie was so great the second it ended it was instantly my favorite movie. I probably enjoyed this movie so much because i come from a catholic school myself. The school that i went to is exactly the way this school is and i can really relate to what the kids are going through in this film. all of the friends that i have showed this movie to loved it also. this is such a great film and sadly it is overlooked but i am glad that i found it.… Expand

This was such a great movie. Kieran Culkin is so good and he had such a hard character to play. (I'm a huge fan) Emile Hirsch was great as well, but I think had a less challenging role. Jena Malone was good, but it just seems to me that she plays the same character in every movie. Jodie Foster was fantastic as always. I also really liked Jake Richardson and Tyler Long. This movie was so deep and it really showed it from a great point of view. Definitely a must see if you enjoy movies that actually have meaning...… Expand

Overwrought, slow, plodding story, weak directing. Decent acting, wasted great talents of D'Onofrio and Foster. Jena Malone a find.

I read the book before i saw the movie so i had an idea of what it'd be like. I thought the movie was beautifully executed. The innovative animation cuts in between live action was great, unique. I've loved the honesty of this story since reading Chris Furhman's novel; Care did a great job of making the story into something so visually interesting. I'm a big Jena Malone fan- she did great as always. Emile embodied Francis perfectly and did a great job with the dramatic scenes. The music for the film was also very good...i believe Joshua Homme did most of it. Everyone needs to go buy this film!… Expand

The movie was really great. i'm going to buy it now.

Oh, it really was wonderful. Emile Hirsch was splendid and Kieran Culkin as well. I was completely happy with this movie. Film doesn't get any better than this.

The idea of getting inside the mind of an adolescent boy by showing his comic book fantasies come to life as an escape from church dogma and small-town ennui looks good on paper, but it doesn't quite come together on the screen. Just when the Todd McFarlane sequences get the audience's adrenaline pumping, the languor of the storytelling and methodical pacing might jar and possibly, polarize the audience. The animation, or the live actors, might be perceived as a disruption, depending on who you are. But this movie is well-worth seeing. You have to admire and respect a filmmaker who tried this hard. A lot of work went into this enterprise. … Expand